The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-20
Labor Notes.

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Labor in the iron and steel mills is overtaxed.
Large railroad frog works to be erected at
East ST. Louis.
The wooden outlook is much better than it
was month ago
A machine has been made which makes either
a wire nail or a cut nail.
Twenty five tons Of wire rs the daily output of
new Chicago wire-mill.
Railroad construction is calling for oil the
common labor that can be had.
There is one bag of coffee in store or in sight
for every 120 persons in the United States.
Two thousand men have just been started
making narrow gauge rails at Carondelet Mo-
The Lake Superior output this year
thirty tons for every twenty three tons last
year.
The vapor-stove manufacturers will pool
their interests in Cleveland, the home of the
Standard.
The natural-eas fever has struck Tennessee.
and company has started operations at Oliver,
that State,
In a comparatively short time all the large in
dustrial establishments East will be lighted by
electricity.
The largest knfe-grinder ever made is in use
at Fitchburg, Mass, and weighs between three
and four tons.
The shoe manufacturers pleased with the
active demand and the good prices realized for
boots and shoes.
The cutlery manufacturers have advanced
prices Ii to % per cent. since their combination
went into effect.
A seven months stove-molders' strike in ST.
Louis has been declared off, and old hands are
forced to seek employment elsewhere.
The Mennonite colony of silk growers in Kan
encouraged by State contributions and
by liberal prices from Eastern consumers
Cinnamon in California who have picked up q
smattering OF mining knowledge are in demand
TO go back to China, to work mines there.
There at this time twenty-one bureaus of
labor in the United States, of which fourteen
have been established in the last four years.
English railnakers disappointed because
American makers are selling steel rails at At
lantic ports at $751; or its equivalent anywhere
else
The largest steel ingot ever cast in England
weighed seventy tons, was sixtytwo inches in
diameter, and was for gun to be forty feet
long
The Brockton. Mass. Shoe Assembly, which
numbered 200 members a year ago, is now
practically out of existence, so says its chief
officer.
Sunday factory labor in Germany is enforced
by the sharp competition between employers,
and agitation which will arrest 1t is likely
set
An English mechanic with an Hon" before
mis- name, has made an engine that makes 10000
revolutions per minute, and which can be in
creased to 80, 600.
All Western machine shops seem to be crowd
ed. but laoor organizations there are warning
Eastern mechanics not to to imagine that they
can jump into situations easily
A larger percentage Of European labor will re-
main on this side OF the Atlantic this winter
than usual, to build bridges. mines erect
shops ana manufactures, and do all manner of
ordinary labor.
Strange as il may seem, after all our extraor-
binary expansion in iron and steei-makinc con-
sumers obliged to import large Quantities of
sheet. sectional iron and hoops. Low prices
have something to do with 1t.
River and lake craft multiplying in the
West, and about $40 0O0, 600 is to be invest
ed in plants and equipments to turn boats.
50, O00 coo plant is to be built at Alton, ILL.,. to
construct ocean and river steamships.
So far this month 36.226 laborers struck,
three -fourths of whom were miners. One thou
sand Boston cigar-makers struck against the era-
ployment of apprentices, and 2, 500 iron roll
turner's and others struck at Pittsburg.
A Philadelphia textile firm that came in to pos
session of the textile machinery of ten different
mills selected the most serviceable in all of it
and located 1t under one roof at Atlanta, Ga,
where yarn from No 10 to No. 20 is turned out
In the machine shops and car and locomotive
works rs well as in the shipyards and tool
works. employment will be more abundant than
it was last winter, and a great deal of new ma
chinery Is being put up for busy winters
work
Kansas sugar making enthusiasts expect to
have this country independent of foreign sugar
duce from ten to fifteen of sorghum-cane.
Besides this sugar, ten gallons of molasses per
ION is made
The Minneapolis hour-makers have shipped
forty one barrels of -four this year for thirty
barrels last year. The mills are turning
out 100, 600 barrels per week. For every 100
bushels of potatoes raised last year only 81 are
raised this year.
One coal nine in Western PENNSYLVANIA is
ventilated with natural gas The fire which
gives the upward current is a natural gas flame.
Pipes are used to collect the gas, which is con-
Quoted TO the bottom of the ventilating shaft
after having been burned.
In the bituminous mines there Is demand
for nearly all the miners and but few are COM
ing from abroad Mining labor. which ordinar-
iy Is obliged to roam TO and fro over the country
in seasons this winter will be more station
ary and employment will be more steady.
a worsted mill, said to be the fines. in the
country. has just been started in Utica, n "
with English machinery. It is managed by
Philadelphlan. The aim is to eclipse the CLAY"
and other like brands. in spite of dsadvan-
tageous climate Another Utica cotton-m
is being built, and all English machinery will
in.
Manufacturers in nearly all the large COM
mercial centers are buying for only current re-
quirements. The trade statistics show that the
general movement in manufactured products
and merchandise is very large. Constant en-
ployment Of the masses az good wages is pro-
ducing the usual satisfactory results in trade
channels